US 11,995,440 B2
Method and system for executing new instructions
Weilin Wang, Beijing (CN); Mengchen Yang, Beijing (CN); and Yingbing Guan, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to SHANGHAI ZHAOXIN SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD., Shanghai (CN)
Filed by Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Shanghai (CN)
Filed on Jun. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/337,166.
Application 18/337,166 is a continuation of application No. 17/471,359, filed on Sep. 10, 2021, granted, now 11,914,997.
Claims priority of application No. 202011589298.6 (CN), filed on Dec. 29, 2020; and application No. 202011591546.0 (CN), filed on Dec. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0333853 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 9/30145 (2013.01) [G06F 9/3861 (2013.01); G06F 9/4411 (2013.01); G06F 9/542 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for executing new instructions, comprising:
receiving an instruction;
decoding the received instruction with an instruction decoder;
determining whether the received instruction is an unknown instruction, based on decoded information from the instruction decoder;
when the received instruction is an unknown instruction, executing the following steps:
determining whether the received instruction is a new instruction;
converting the received instruction into at least one old instruction when the received instruction is a new instruction; and
executing the at least one old instruction.